It is October 1939. Blanche Lancret is a French exile in England, To maintain her sang-froid Blanche
looking after her American friend Annabelle's baby. She is
waiting for news of Annabelle's brother Vernon, who is serving with an ambulance unit in newly-invaded France, and of her surrogate mother Tante
Julie, a rich d mimondaine nursing her dying husband Otto on
the French Riviera.
writes her journal, recalling
how...